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Due to new regulations in Germany energy providers are required to obtain IT security certificates. Especially small and medium-sized energy providers struggle to fulfill these new requirements. Since most of them are in the same situation, we are dealing with the question on how to support their collaboration using a web-based platform. We elicited criteria from energy providers on how such a platform should be designed to support them. The main contribution is a set of requirements for the collaboration platform along with the implications for its implementation. The focus of this work is not on technical innovation but on how existing technologies and best practices can be adopted for the needs of small and mediumsized energy providers.